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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
